Dog Days and Noah and the Flood
Published 8:01 pm Friday, August 18, 2023
“The Dog Star rose with the sun about the same time the hot, sticky, sultry days of summer came on us; but old Noah had more to do with Dog Days than a star in the sky.”
Forget about Friday 13th or Halloween. According to the knowledge of Uncle Ovie, July 26 is the very first day of Dog Days and the start of the Forty Days of Misery.
So, we still have a method to go.
When I was maturing, Mama did her finest to keep me from itching and scratching, The flat gnats would be available in droves so she put kerosene around my eyes to keep them away. Mosquitoes would consume me up even in long sleeves and a sun bonnet.
My initially remembrance of Dog Days was the year I got the ground itch after Mama informed me not to go outdoors in the early morning dew.
Dog Days were anguish. Snakes would go blind and couldn’t see. So, they would strike at the very first thing that passed. But, you didn’t understand if you were the very first thing or the next thing.
Fish got tetanus and wouldn’t bite. Birds wouldn’t sing. Lightning would boil down in bolts without a cloud in the sky. The creek would stream backwards and the wind would blow up. The chickens would crow and the roosters would lay eggs.
Nothing went right throughout Dog Days.
But what Uncle Ovie said that puzzled me the most was that the plague of Dog Days returned to Noah’s time when the Lord sent 40 days of rain and destroyed the world.
After the flood was over, the Lord assured He would never ever once again destroy the world by a flood and He sealed that pledge with a rainbow in the sky.
How dogs got blended with Noah and the flood and the rainbow in the sky, Uncle Ovie figured resembled this.
During Dog Days, dogs have fits and freak and a mad dog is frightened to death of water, as frightened of water as individuals were back in Noah’s time when the flood waters kept getting high and greater.
